 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 pagine
...her pinion, •nd the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk . urns what was once romantic to burlesque. m E. ; and if I weep, 'T is that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pagine
...her pinion, And the sad truth that hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. ' me, And perish ; and if I weep, 'T is that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy.' He was saved, indeed,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1905 - 680 pagine
...of things, For the selection of the pausing judgment.' The remark in ' Don Juan,' iv, st. iv — ' And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ' — looks very like a reminiscence of Richardson's ' Pamela ' (Letter Ixxxiv) : — 'It is to this... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1905 - 332 pagine
...saw A terrier too . . . He cag'd in one huge hamper altogether. The remark in Don Juan , IV, st. iv: And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep — looks very like a reminiscence of Richardson's Pamela (Letter Ixxxiv) : It is to this deep concern... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pagine
...her pinion. And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk 24 Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring 28 Itself to apathy, for we must steep Our... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1907 - 428 pagine
...liberated Bome, Some hands unseen strew'd flowers upon his tomb. 33 Is it pathos, or merely an epigram ? And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ! M his sentiment, as superficial and second-hand. Were they of the present date they might be. When... | |
 | James Blyth - 1909 - 330 pagine
...of the creations of the greatest creator of character — I mean of character in fiction or poetry. "And if I laugh at any mortal thing "Tis that I may not weep." " Why, Martha," she said, " are you in one of your mysterious moods to-night? " " The mood is on me,... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1112 pagine
...the fount of tears is that of laughter also, and that to open one sluice is to shut off the other : And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. Richardson, however, had said long before, — Indeed, it is to this deep concern that my levity is... | |
 | James Blyth - 1909 - 354 pagine
...seriousness. Itis time for us to get away aboard the boat." " Oh, you are cross ! " cried Sylvia. " And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep," she added, in a low-pitched voice, which I believe reached no other ears but mine. Her eyes were really... | |
 | 1909 - 448 pagine
...in railway carriages, but which loses much of its zest when taken away from its surroundings : — And if I laugh at any mortal thing, "Tis that I may not weep. CHAPTER XXIX. CONVERSATION in Commercial Rooms, is at odd times neither refined nor witty, but thanks... | |
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And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy... 
